Kjerstin Rossi is a filmmaker and editor. Her editing credits include “The Lazarus Effect”, an HBO production that examines the impact of free Antiretroviral medicines in Zambia, “Collaborators” about filmmaker Spike Jonze and his creative team, and the feature documentary “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me” about the legendary Broadway actor. “Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me” premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2013 and was nationally released in 2014. Kjerstin has edited several experimental documentary works, including Wangechi Mutu’s “Mud Fountain” (Deutsch Guggenheim, 2010), Anna Gaskell’s “SOSW Ballet” (acquired by Whitney Museum, 2011), and Wangechi Mutu’s “Eat Cake” (Brooklyn Museum, 2013). Her experimental short “Super Queers” premiered at the Tate Modern and she is currently directing “Singing Was the Only Way Through”, a short hybrid documentary related to the psychiatric survivor movement.
